Summary:
Richard uses a building as his coaster, and then talks about Fold Quartz and his dream of overcoming fold faults to bring the universe together. While the government experiments on Vajra corpses, Ranka is kept under tight security. Grace has a grand plan to make Ranka into a huge celebrity with Aimo as a second single, so Grace monitors Ranka’s emotion index and the faint fold wave signature she gives off while singing. To help out Alto and Ozma, Ranka agrees to Leon’s plan to test her singing on Vajra in the middle of a battle.
Alto runs into a feverish Sheryl on the street and ends up carrying her back to SMS HQ right before the start of the mission. Sheryl demands to watch the mission and witnesses Ranka’s ability to completely disorient the Vajra. One indie-loving, mainstream-hating Vajra is able to break away and attack Ranka’s ship, but Brera shoots right through Alto’s wing in order to take the Vajra out. The mission is a complete success, although Grace notes that Ranka needs more training to avoid getting interrupted while spellcasting.
Reaction:
I loved all the little details in this episode, especially the super-ironic scene with Ai-kun the baby Vajra sitting in the VF backpack (which used the same angles as a certain School Days scene). Then there was Elmo drinking himself into a stupor at the unfairness of the situation and Mikhail telling Alto to remember to clamp a do-not-disturb handkerchief in the door. I was surprised to hear Luca make a PMS joke, and I was creeped out when Brera said Aimo made him feel like the Milky Way’s tendrils were molesting his body. Klan Klein saying, “Yakk… deculture,” was also a highlight of the episode.
Now that we’ve officially named the Fold Quartz, can we please stop getting all the heavy-handed sparkling any time a character gets near the crystals? There was more dumping on Sheryl this episode, but at least she got a Sheryl-centric ED. I still think that Sheryl will be important to the final battle, even if it is just as Ranka’s backup singer. I don’t begrudge Ranka’s success, especially considering her motives and the difficulty of her task. By the way, did anyone catch Mikhail stealing a kill on the Vajra that was just about to be blown up by a swarm of missiles? That guy is almost as bastardly as Brera!
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I can’t believe I totally forgot about Ai-kun!
And I didn’t notice any details lols, and I didn’t see Mikhail do anything either lols. But hopefully Sheryl will be important in the final battle … like she and Ranka get kidnapped or something and Alto-hime has to choose between the two 
You know comrade I think that Ram should become this blog’s patron Saint, so far she’s been just as snarky as you. :P
I don’t think Sheryl really got dumped on considering Ranka is going to struggle to have just as much time with Alto-hime. Sheryl’s lost a lot but she stands to gain Alto-hime and make a comeback some other day in the future. Unlike Ranka there is no real obstacle between Sheryl and her hime, Mikhail even seems to be tired of them going no where and will soon have a Klein sized problem given how he made Klein-sama cry.
Right now I think Ranka is losing sight of what she wants by letting Grace and Brera decide everything for her.
That PMS joke was lame, but Luca’s deadpan expression had me in stitches. Also, Ranka’s phone had me in awe once again. What can’t it do?!
I was kinda surprised they had to use a mini-disc to store a single. The bridge bunnies are great in their discussions, but I am constantly in fear that they will get eaten by the vajra-chickens.
As for Sheryl, I still believe. See, the way I see this shaking down is just like what happened in Jerry McGuire. Grace thinks she’s won, but Elmo is going to sign Sheryl and Sheryl will be all difficult at first. But once Elmo starts yelling “SHOW ME THE MONEY” along with Sheryl, their tag team is going to take out Grace and Ranka and Ranka will be all jealous.
I always thought those green things were kind of odd. Maybe its just the style they were done in.
Luca must have heard this quite often directed at him when performing poorly. He probably doesn’t even know what it refers to. In the military it’s not unusual to treat others as girls whenever they fail or just complain.
Those Vajra must be true audiophiles, if even flak err FLAC isn’t good enough for them. I wonder whether they at least considered replacing Ranka by a dog whistle.
There seems to be some recent trend of pushing girls against walls in anime.
Did nobody notice Glass’ Geass eyes during the video call?
No mention of the impending arrival of Pineapple Salad for Ozma, Kabitzin? For shame.
I didn’t see the Geass eye, though while rewatching I did notice that Brera wears a lot of eye makeup…
I don’t usually watch the previews, but I hear it’s not looking good for Ozma. I’m wonder if he will really die without a sendoff episode, though.
Poor Ozma, he’s so going to die next episode just from next episode’s title.
This episode was pretty awesome, I loved the extra features on the phone and I wonder what else it can do. Frog phone 4tehWIN!
I do wonder though how close we are from having Sound Boosters v2 ™
Give Luca a break! He was trying to be funny in front of Nanase, but apparently she did not get the joke.
And I wonder whether Cathy is capable of making pineapple salads.
Sad Sheryl is the new hotness, but Basara talk on the bridge and Grace using CDs are both on the lame-outdated side of things.
BluRay is just a glorified CD. Nothing says it’ll be used for distribution of music in a hundred years but they’ll have their uses even then as cheap, reasonably robust, disposable storage medium. Or maybe the DRM will be so tight that you can’t transfer music over the network anymore. After all, hasn’t Macross always been about heavy-armed musicians?
There are actually unconfirmed rumours that the FBI used Basara’s singing during the Waco Siege in Texas resulting in the deaths of more than 80 people.
Damn, I felt so sorry for Cheryl and Alto in that battle – the feelings of rudundancy, of being replaced by someone else, were quite something.
The use of Ranka’s song in battle was quite chilling though. Nobody knows how she knows it, or what its true power is – the song is for me something powerful, beautiful and mysterious…hardly deserving of being used to taunt Vajra. She’s right to be asking herself why she’s using it in this way.
The devil is in the details though. The squishy green phone thingy that plays mini CDs by eating them…I WANT.